Match-striking cabinet.



` CA` R. SMITH. MATCH STRIKING CABINET. APPLIOATION rILsD 1111.15, 1910. Bmmwnn ooi-.11.' 1910.

' Patented N Ov. 22, 11910.

COVER'I It. SMITH, OF FREEPORT, OHIO.

MATCH-STRIKING CABINET.

976,612. specification of Letters raient. Paaemd N0V 22, 1910,

Application filed January 15, 1910, Serial No. 538,293. Renewed vOctober 17, 1910. Serial No. 587,512.

To all whom t may concern: l at 6 and which is slightly movable, the pur- 13e it known that I, Coviinr R. SMiTH, a pose of this plate being to jar the matches citizen of the United States, residing at Freedown toward the front lower end of the port, in the county of Harrison and State of compartment 3, when the device is operated. Ohio, have invented certain new and useful The partition 4 divides the magazine 3 or Improvements in Match-Striking Cabinets, storage chamber from a front compartment of which the following is a specification. 7, the side walls of which are provided with This invention comprehends certain new curved guides 8. Mounted in the compartand useful improvements in match dispensment 7, between the guides 8 is a picker arm ing safes or'holders, and the invention has 9, the same being mounted to turn upon a transversely extending shaft 1() and being for its primary object, a simple, durable, and efficient construction of this character, which l provided with gear teeth 11 arranged in the form of a segment as shown. The teeth 11 will, when operated eject one match at a time, and at the same time strike the match mesh with rack teeth 12 formed on the upper so that it will be lighted when presented at l face of a forwardly and backwardly sliding the discharge end of the cabinet, ej ecting plate 13 which is mounted in suit- With this and other objects in view as will able guides in the cabinet 1 in the bottom more fully appear as the description prothereof and the lower end of which is adaptceeds, the invention consists in certain coned t0 ClOSe the bOECOln discharge Opening 0 structions and arrangements of the parts the magazine chamber 3. That portion of that 1 shall hereinafter' fully describe and the plate 13 WhCh ClOSeS the bottOIn diS- charge opening of the magazine chamber 3 claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, moves forward and will carry the last match up against the curved guides 8, as the ejectreference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings in ing plate is slid forwardly, just at the inwhich: stant, of the return of the picker arm 9. Ob-

viously the upper surface of this portion of Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of one form of my improved match striking the plate 13 may be corrugated or otherwise arranged to operate positively on the cabinet; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the D t line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail permatches, in bringing them up to the picker arm guides.

spective view of the picker arm employed; i t Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a modica- 14 designates a contractile spring which is secured at one end to the downwardly eX- tion of the invention; and, Fig. 5 is a trans verse sectional view on the line 5-5 of tending hooked rear end 15 of the ejecting plate 13, the forward end of the spring be- Corresponding and like parts are referred ing connected in any desired way and i n a stationary manner to the casing or cabinet to in the following description and indicated 1 underneath the plate. Projecting forin all the views of the accompanying drawwardly from the plate is an actuating hanings by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, land now pardle 16 the same being preferably provided at its front end with a finger piece 17.

ticularly to that embodiment of the inven- 18 and 19 designate springs which are tion which is illustrated in Fig. 1 the numeral 1 designates a case or cabinet which secured to the front of the cabinet 1 contigumay be of any desired size and design, and ous to the plate 13 and at opposite sides of constructed of any desired material or inatea discharge opening 2O which is in the form of a recess, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

rials, the case being preferably provided at its top with a lid 2 which may be opened to The spring 18 having the head of the match rubbed along its milled or roughened surinsert the matches within the magazine comface so as to strike the match and present it partment 3. The front of this compartment 3 is formed by a substantially vertically dislighted at the opening 20, while at the same time the picker arm 9 is reversed in its posed and transversely extending partition` movement and caused to engage another 4 which terminates at its lower end short of match for a subsequent ejecting operation. It is to be understood that the invention is the bottom of the compartment, the bottom of the compartment being defined by a fornot limited to any particular construction of match scratching element, or to any parwardly and downwardly extending plate 5 which is hinged at its rear end as indicated in the embodiment of the invention now 'which is formed with rack teeth'12a engag- Vbear Vcorresponding numerals without the cov vention and that first described residing in a depending arm ing l operation of this `mounted in the cabinet below the discharge ticular constructionV and arrangement of match scratching elements with the springs or match holding devices 18 and 19. If desired, the match may be grasped at the opening 20 and removed entirely from the match striking cabinet, or it may remain in partially ejected position owing to the fact that the ejecting plate 13 is formed at one side of its front edge with .a beveled portion 23 nterminating short of the free end of the spring 19, the latter thereby holding the handle end ofthe match, while the head end of the match is pushed entirely out from the front of the cabinet.V This is clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

In that embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in Fig. 3 1a designates the cabinet, Sathe magazine chamber thereof, 7a the compartment, the side walls of which are formed with the curved guides 8a having outwardly beveled front lower end portionsv22a, and 13*l the match ejecting plate ing the teeth 11a formed on the match picking arm 9a and in this embodiment of the invention the parts just named are substantially like the parts above described thatV eiiicients as are also the springs 18a and 19a, the main difference between this form of inthe actuating part of the mechanism which being described consists of a bell crank lever 16a the handle end of which is formed with a finger piece 17a and which is provided with 24 which works in an openormed in the ejecting plate 13a. vAs the form of the invention is substantially likethe operation of the embodlment as described, further and detail description of the operation is deemed unnecessary. Itis of course to be undertood that the device may be made of any desired width so as to be applicable for use with full length or smaller matches.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A match cabinet embodying a storage compartment provided with a discharge opening, a match picker mounted in said cabinet, and an ejecting plate slidingly opening and operatively connected to the picker arm to turn the same upon the sliding movement of the plate.

2.' A match striking cabinet, embodying a storage magazine provided with a discharge opening, an ejecting plate adapted to slide in the cabinet underneath the discharge opening, a picker arm operatively connected to the ejecting plate, and springs coacting with the plate and underneath which the; match is passed by the plate, the plate being l Y formed with a beveled edgeunderneath one i Vof said springs as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A match striking cabinet, embodying a storage magazine, an ejecting plate operating in the cabinet and adapted to receive the matches from said magazine, amatch picker mounted fo-r a back and forth turning movement inthe cabinet and operatively connected to the ejecting plate, and guides mounted within the cabinet at opposite sides of said picker, said guides being formed with forwardly deliected front ends, for the purpose specified.

4. A match striking cabinet embodying a storage magazine, a match ejecting plate operating underneath the storage magazine and spring pressed in one direction, means for moving the plate in the opposite direction, the plate being formed with a rack, a match picker mounted for a back and forth movement in the cabinet and formed with teeth meshing with the teeth of the rack, and a match striking element coacting with the ejecting plate at the front of the cabinet.

5. A match striking cabinet embodying a storage magazine, an ejecting plate mounted for a back and forth sliding movement in the cabinet underneath the magazine, said plate being formed with a rack, a spring tending to move said plate forwardly in the cabinet, means for moving said plate rearwardly in the cabinet, a match picker mounted for a back and forth turning movement in the cabinet and formed with teeth meshing with the teeth of the rack, the cabinet being provided at opposite sides of the match picker with curved guides the front ends of which are forwardly deiiected, for the purpose specified, and a match striking element coacting with the ejecting plate at the front of the cabinet.

6. A match striking cabinet embodying a storage compartment provided with a bottom discharge opening, a rotatable match picker mounted in said cabinet, an ejecting plate slidingly mounted in the cabinet below the discharge opening and operatively connected to the picker arm to turn the same upon the sliding movement of the ejecting plate, and a match striker coacting with the ejecting plate to light the match as it is drawn out of the cabinet.

A match cabinet, embodying a storage magazine, an ejecting plate operating in the cabinet and adapted to receive the matches from said magazine, a match picker mounted for a back-and forth turning movement in the cabinet and operatively connected to, the ejecting plate andguides mounted within the cabinet at opposite sides of said picker, for the purpose specified.

8. A match striking cabinet embodying a storage magazine, a match ejecting plate operating underneath the storage magazine, the plate being formed with a rack, anda match picker mounted for a back and forth is passed by the plate, one of said springs moyement in the cabinet and formed With being formed With a roughened surface, for teeth meshing with the teeth of the rack. the purpose specified.

9. A match striking cabinet, embodying a l In testimony whereof I aiix my Signature 5 storage magazine provided With a discharge in presence of tWo Witnesses.

opening an eject-infr plate mounted to slide n the 7cabinet urderneath the discharge COVERT R SMITH' [L S] opening, a picker arm, operatively oonnect- Witnesses:

ed to the ejecting plate and springs coacting R. W. GREEN,

10 with the plate underneath Which the match F. D. GREEN. 

